Evening. Well see you in half an hour at 6 00. Tonight, breaking news. The showdown between the u. S. And iran. After iran shoots down a u. S. Navy drone. Tonight, right here, the new u. S. Surveillance showing the massive 100 Million Drone as big as the wingspan of a 737, plummeting from the sky. Hit by the iranians, they say it was in iranian airspace. The u. S. Says thats not true. And tonight, President Trump now saying maybe iran made a mistake. That it could have been someone, quote, loose and stupid. And breaking now as we come on the air, what were now learning after an Emergency Meeting in the Situation Room. Martha raddatz and mary bruce standing by live. The stunning turn tonight in the War Crime Trial of a former navy s. E. A. L. , accused of murdering a prisoner. A fellow navy s. E. A. L. Taking the stand today and telling the court, i was the one who
murdered the prisoner. The courtroom shocked, prosecutors yelling. Were tracking a major storm system up and down the east
despite the wishes of many currently serving in the military. chief gallagher served as the platoon leader of s.e.a.l. team 7. it was during his final deployment to mosul, iraq, in 2017 his fellow s.e.a.l.s they they witnessed behavior that caused them to speak out. among other things those s.e.a.l.s accused gallagher of stabbing a defenseless captive to death, of picking off a school age girl and old man from from a sniper s roost and indiscriminately spraying neighborhoods with rockets and machine gunfire. gallagher eventually stood trial on charges he murdered that captive who was an isis prisoner, but he was later acquitted after a star witness in the case changed his testimony, later claiming that he himself had killed the prisoner. gallagher was found guilty on a single charge for having posed with a photo with the corpse. president trump has taken special interest in this case after the navy demoted gallagher, the president reversed the demotion.
when the navy tried to remove gallagher from the s.e.a.l.s the president once again stepped in ordering the pentagon to stand down. the navy secretary was later fired for his handling of the case while just last weekend gallagher on the right was seen meeting with the president at mar-a-lago. but tonight there is another development in this case. the new york times reporter david philips has exclusively obtained navy interviews with the s.e.a.l. team members who accused gallagher of misconduct in the first place. the times has published those interviews with the investigators and its tv series, the weekly, has now published the video. what you re about to see shows them speaking on camera with investigators about their platoon leader eddy gallagher. and a warning what you re about to see and hear is disturbing. in the summer of 2019 we get leaked a trove of navy materials that includes thousands of
new york times report which includes material never shown publicly before such as recorded interviews with members of the s.e.a.l. team who accused gallagher. and it comes just days after eddie gallagher himself was with donald trump and a friend or i guess his wife i believe at the florida resort. the times describes the recording as, quote, the first opportunity outside the courtroom to hear directly from the men of alpha platoon s.e.a.l. team 7 whose blistering testimony about their platoon chief was dismissed by president trump when he up ended the military code of justice to protect chief gallagher from the punishment. gallagher was accused of stabbing to death a teenage isis fighter had been wounded by an air strike and been detained by the u.s. military in mosul in 2017. a military court acquitted him in july of first degree murder and attempted murder. he was convicted of one relatively minor charge of posing for photowise the body of the dead isis fighter.
recorded interviews with members of the s.e.a.l. team who accused gallagher. and this just days after eddie gallagher himself was with donald trump and a friend, i guess his wife, i believe. the times described it as the first opportunity to hear from the men of alph aeroplatoon s.e.a.l. team 7 whose blistering testimony about their chief was set aside. he-been detain a military court acquitted gallagher of first degree murder and attempted murder. he was a# convicted of posing with photos of the dead body of the teenage isis fighter. they demoted him following a conviction but last month donald trump restoring his rank, which